Hi all. I can't get any sound output from Alsaplayer. If it helps, when I open up Alsamixer, it identifies the card as "ESS AudioDrive ES1879". I'm running Slitaz-Rolling. Any ideas?

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Posted 9 years ago #
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Hi!
Try this as root:
alsactl init
After you configure the level of sound you desire:
alsactl store
It worked for me. Maybe it can help you too.
Have a nice day!Posted 9 years ago # -
Hmm... All it gives me is a message saying:
Found hardware: "ES1979" "ESS AudioDrive ES1879"
Hardware is initialized using a generic methodPosted 9 years ago # -
I had exactly the same problem and i also got the same msg when tried the commands given by Genesis
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# alsactl init
Found hardware: "ATIIXP" "Conexant Cx20468-31" "AC97a:43585430" "0x103c" "0x30a4"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
----But it worked. I have sound now!
PS. I still have to control, if the settings rest after a re-boot.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@emninger
So, you mean after running "alsactl init", you had sound? I still don't get sound after doing that. It just behaves the same as before.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@physic
Run this command as root to reset/unmute alsamixer, then retry alsaplayer for sound.
setmixer
If no sound then follow my directions to run alsasound diagnostic information script.
Post the link given for the uploaded information which I will analyze.
tazpkg -gi bash
Hit enter you do not want bash as default link to /bin/sh.
tazpkg -gi wget
wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
chmod +x alsa-info.sh
./alsa-info.sh
Choose upload.
Verify link to info is good.
Copy/paste url link to ALSA information in your reply.This is link to my info:
Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=66135b51b423f8e5b4e9f8728f2c2fd4c4c47129
Please inform the person helping you.Posted 9 years ago # -
@mojo
"setmixer" didn't help. Everything else worked fine until the last line:# ./alsa-info.sh
./alsa-info.sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
./alsa-info.sh: line 1: '<HTML>'Posted 9 years ago # -
Busybox-wget fetched the html, not the script.
Delete alsa-info.sh
Install gnu wget as root:
tazpkg -gi wget
Follow previous directions.Posted 9 years ago # -
Here is the link:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=82ba7f32c9f40d49db8a4b5ea0ca467b5be0841c
By the way, when I clicked the link you gave, the name of the file was "alsa-info_alsa-info" and I downloaded it that way and changed the name back to just "alsa-info". Like you said, wget fetched the html instead of the script, which the hyperlink sent me to.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Update: I discovered that I do get sound, but it comes out as static-y noise. Perhaps my hardware is too old to work properly.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Sorry but I have no suggestions.Nothing stands out to me in the alsa-info as wrong or missing.The problem is "ESS AudioDrive ES1879" uses the ISA interface which was phased out with the advent of PCI around year 2000.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@mojo
No biggie. It's such an old laptop that I'm honestly amazed it still runs and has its original hard drive. I really just wanted it to do something with it other than let it rot away with Windows 98. What's interesting is that when I tried Alsaplayer, the sound was unintelligible static, but when I tried it on visual boy advance, the music was actually somewhat clearer. Still messed up, but significantly clearer, so maybe the issue is specific to the music player? I don't know. Ultimately, I had to remove visual boy advance, because the cpu was running full speed and I wasn't getting the performance I wanted. It's not unlikely that that could have garbled the sound on the emulator as well. I'll fiddle with it some more and see if I find some solution. It could have something to do with bit rate/bit depth, etc. I guess if I really want to, I could try dual booting with either FreeDOS or Windows 98 if I want music, as I know drivers exist for both, but it seems like there is something else going on here. It might be the specs of the mp3's that is the culprit.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Hi
Back in the Days it was always necessary to assign an IRQ and DMA manually in the Bios to make ISA-Cards work properly.
((Jumpers had to be set -newer cards use PnP-, than identify the slot used by this card and finally assign the resources to the card))
Here is some tech-info about your card
http://newton.kias.re.kr/~choims/Linux/LifeBook-765Tx/Sound/card.html
maybe this can help too:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92947
But I do not know if SliTaz will ignore the bios settings or if / which additional adjustments are needed...
I'm just remembering the (good) old days.
good luckPosted 9 years ago # -
@sixofeight
Thank you! I got it working! Changed the bios settings to the suggested values from the Arch thread. Even though the bios gave me warnings that the values conflicted with something else (not sure exactly what), it still worked.
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